Egypt
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Egypt, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- Egypt's Lake Moeris Road: The World's Oldest Paved Road, Built to Haul Stone for the Pyramids (Article)
- Imhotep: The Ancient Egyptian Polymath Who Became a God (Article)
- Cheikh Anta Diop and the Contested Question of Ancient Egypt's Race (Article)
- The Aswan High Dam Flooded Nubia and Displaced Its People (Article)
- The 1956 Suez Crisis: Egypt, the Canal, and the End of an Empire's Illusions (Article)
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria: Divers Are Still Pulling Its Pieces Out of the Harbor (Article)
- The Great Pyramid of Giza: The One Ancient Wonder Still Standing, and an Honorary Modern One Too (Article)
- Where Africa's Millionaires Lived in 2012: Johannesburg, Cairo, and Lagos (Article)
- The Nile: The World's Longest River, Through Cairo and Eleven Countries (Article)
- The 42 Negative Confessions: How Ancient Egyptians Judged a Life Well Lived (Article)
- Medinet Habu: Ramses III's Fortified Temple on the Nile's West Bank (Article)
- Egypt's 1952 Free Officers Coup: The Fall of King Farouk (Article)
From the Archive
- An attempt at describing Africa by the European "Learned men" of the time, the year 1659. Fascinating read,…
- In 1994, archaeologists discovered the world's oldest paved road in Egypt, believed to be at least 4,600-ye…
- Saudi Arabia and Egypt are collaborating on what has been called the "Moses Bridge" project connecting Afri…
- Top 20 Best Universities in Africa, 2025 1. University of Cape Town 🇿🇦 2. Stellenbosch University 🇿🇦 3.…
- Every time you glance at your wedding ring, just know that you're continuing a 4,000-year-old Egyptian trad…
- Sherif Ismail, the 53rd Prime Minister of Egypt, died. (2023)
- BREAKING: Senegal 🇸🇳 are winners of the Africa Cup of Nations! It's their first AFCON in 16 times they've…
- While the Egyptian pyramids are famous, Sudan has 3 times more - 223 pyramids - also tombs for royalty. Tho…
- Africa's top 20 military powers today ranked by country, from strongest to weakest. 1. Egypt🇪🇬 Algeria🇩�…
- The mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II was issued a passport in 1974 with occupation listed as “King (deceased)” as…
- Here are the hotspots for African venture capital investment, with Nigeria ($307 million), Kenya ($305 mill…
- African nations with the highest number of Internet users (millions) 1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 154.3 million 2. Egypt…
- Africa's greatest Kings & Queens: Manin (Ghana) Menelik II (Abyssania) Ali (Songhai) Askia (Mali) Musa (Mal…
- Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer and physician, died. (2021)
- The container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt for six days, disrupting glob… (2021)
- Flora Shaw was one of the few Western authors to boldly admit in her 1905 book that the great ancient Egypt…
- We currently have 690,000 professional tech developers across Africa today with South Africa, Nigeria, Egyp…
- Apparently, it's been revealed that President Donald Trump wondered why his wife would want to travel to Af…
- African Powers Ranked by Military Strength: 1 Egypt🇪🇬 2 Algeria🇩🇿 3 SA🇿🇦 4 Nigeria🇳🇬 5 Ethiopia🇪🇹…
- Today we celebrate Dr Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian/physicist who studied human race origins. His…
- Malcolm X on the importance of having educated, progressive African women in our societies. Remember that i…
- Idi Amin on invading Israel, 1974. For context, Egypt attacked Israel during Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- BREAKING: The dreaded coronavirus #COVIDー19 has entered Africa again via an Italian visiting Algeria. This…
- BREAKING: Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt, is dead at the age of 91 according to Egyptian televisi…
- BREAKING: Africa is, once again, free from #COVIDー19 coronavirus as the person initially adjudged to been i…
- After DR Congo's Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba was killed by Belgian agents and his remains dissolved in…
- Nigeria has the worst police in the world, followed by DRC, Kenya and Uganda, says the World Internal Secur…
- The 10 most competitive economies in Africa, 2019. 1.Mauritius 🇲🇺 2. South Africa 🇿🇦 3. Morocco 🇲🇦 4.…
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- Scoring infrastructure in Africa, 2018. Only Maroc, Egypt, SA, Mauritius and Seychelles reach the global av…
- The bustling city of Cairo, Egypt.
- The prestigious 2019 QS World University Rankings has been released. Only 17 African universities—from Sout…
- 8 African nations have lunched 28 satellites into space: South Africa🇿🇦 (6) Nigeria🇳🇬 (6) Algeria🇩🇿 (…
- Here's the just released World University rankings by the prestigious CWUR. 15,000 universities were evalua…
- These are the African countries with the highest number of active tech hubs: South Africa 🇿🇦 59 Nigeria �…
- An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death and hundreds more to prison terms in a mass trial over the 2… (2018)
- Suicide bombers attacked Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, on Palm Sunday, killing at least 4… (2017)
- After Jesus was born, King Herod sought his life. Joseph & Mary fled with Jesus to Egypt, resting at what i…
- Egypt, Senegal and Angola are our current representatives at the United Nations Security Council.